Humanities & Social Sciences

Stage 1: Preparing and submitting final and complete material for production

• Text
  • Introduction
  • Title
  • Word limit
  • Spelling, punctuation, and capitalisation
  • Numbers and dates
  • Notes and reference systems
  • The bibliography or reference list
  • Quotations and permission to reproduce them
  • Layout and pagination
  • Sensitive language
  • Electronic files
• Illustrations
  • General
  • Checklist
  • Photographs
  • Line illustrations
  • Tables
  • Electronic
  • Plate sections
  • Images for the jacket or cover
  • Permission
  • Labelling figures
• Information relating to particular subject areas
  • Law
• Checklist for submission
  • Preliminary page
  • Main text
  • Other items
  • Author questionnaire
  • Summary of artwork instructions

Stage 2: The production process, once material has been submitted

• The XML process
  • The 'XML typescript'
  • Preliminary copy-editorial work
  • Preliminary text design
  • Preparation of art work
• Copy-editing
  • The copy-editor's role
  • Copy-editorial queries
  • Your own corrections
• Indexing
  • The XML indexing process
    XML Indexing Version 2 (PDF 43KB) | XML tsv Version 2 (PDF 259KB)
  • The content and organisation of your index
    Guide on Making an Index (PDF 32KB) | Guide on Indexing Complexity (PDF 23KB)
• The cover and/or jacket
  • Checking your cover proof
  • Subsequent stages
• Text design
• Page proofs
  • Setting the page and index proofs
  • Checking your proofs
  • In-house circulation of proofs(proofreader, copy-editor, text designer, commissioning editor)
• Revised proofs
• The final stages
  • Final corrections
  • The manufacturing proccess
  • Digital printing
• Advance copies, publication and publicity

Other options

• Submitting author-generated [CRC]
  [sub-sections to follow]
• Submitting LaTeX files
  [sub-sections to follow]
• Submitting material for a second edition
  [sub-sections to follow]